Future of education

Education is evolving continuously as civilization matures. The first university opened more than thousand years ago. There are new experimental teaching methods purposed all the time. For example Khan Academy is purposing teaching through watching videos. The idea stands behind one Indian men Khan, who is exceptionally good teacher. He makes math, physics, history, biology and other science classes fun, interesting to listen, easy understandable, so he has recorded thousands of videos himself teaching all these classes. Could that be the future of education? Well, i really doubt so, because Khan is not trying to monetize his project. It is however a very good supplement to the current education system.

Now, let me tell what I think future education will look like. Kids wont carry heavy bags around, but they will be replaced with tablets. That is obvious, one tablet can carry more than hundreds of bags and is less heavy. Most of test will be replaced by automated electronic tests. This is already present and also obvious, because saves a lot of time for teacher and also avoids mistakes in correction process. The most fundamental thing I see eventually is going to happen is that during tests, students will be allowed to use all available tools, e.g. internet in their smartphones and tablets. I think the tests should become much more complicated and the emphases should be put on not to knowing things, but ability to find the right information and operate with it. Because if we are preparing our new generation to be competitive we need to train them for real life situations. Rarely if ever any student is going to try solve the hard problem without the help of internet, just by using the information in their head. We should teach students how to find and operate with the information and not that much the information itself.

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